Leadership Development in Balance: MADE/Born

There are five case studies used in the book: high-tech executives, community leaders, correctional service supervisors, bank managers in Canada, and platoon commanders in Israel. Each example is used as a general basis for discussing how people develop their leadership potential, and as models of training and evaluation.

Bruce J. Avolio is the Clifton Chair in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. In addition, he is also Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute, Co-Director of the UNL and Gallup MBA/MA program in executive leadership, and Director of the Ph.D. program with a specialization in leadership at the College of Business Administration at UNL. He is a division chair at the Academy of Management, a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and has an international reputation as a researcher in leadership.